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To: elmatador who wrote (96196)	11/2/2012 10:47:24 AM
From: Robin Plunder	Respond to of 219411

not really, Bloom is (was, he died about 10 years ago) genuinely disturbed about his profession, he is strongly indicting the philosophical profession for failing to deliver a coherent world view...it is quite a remarkable book, as he was a very well respected individual in his profession, and yet chose to make this very public and very strong statement against his peers. Many folks did not forgive him. From his own point of view, he himself did not claim to have the answers..the best he could suggest was to go back to the classics, especially Plato I believe....but he did not have something specific to recommend, only to say that 'somewhere we have missed something and gone off the tracks'. To be honest, all he had to do was read Atlas Shrugged, it has been available since 1957, and directly addresses his concerns....unfortunately, like many of his fellow philosophers, he had too many 'great possessions' and never looked in this direction... rp

To: elmatador who wrote (96196)	11/2/2012 4:21:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219411

Indeed: < Bloom is saying that a lot of people struggled hard in the past for us to enjoy today the benefits of their efforts. > People installed fibre around Angola and Gabon. No doubt there were some struggles to get that done. It certainly cost a lot of money to do it, and each dollar spent represented struggles by others from earlier times who did good things. Soon, you can use me.ga which will be based in Gabon but with servers everywhere, other than in the USA. Encrypted in and encrypted out, with no observational power by Mega, unlike with Megaupload, nor will the NSA or other arbitrary megalomaniacs be able to read everything. People will once again be able to exist without reference to or approval from some bossy kleptocrats who manage to get themselves in charge of government power. Many people are avoiding the USA. People don't go there lest they get enmeshed in being disappeared and held indefinitely without habeas corpus, or at best being harassed, inconvenienced and mistaken for a jihadist or just being somebody who somebody in power takes a dislike to for some reason. The tourism industry in the USA is noticing that the crowds are not flocking. Mqurice